photography

when a photo is taken. Keyword = LIGHT

Exposure

This photo can be classified as what?

Underexposed

This image has a lot of....?

Noise

Define Depth of Field

How blurry or focused your background/foreground is

When it looks like there are little dots in your photo (also called grainy).

Noise

What is ISO?

Setting that determines the image sensor's sensitivity.

What is Saturation?

The color intensity of our photo.

This image can be classified as what?

Low Saturation

This image can be classified as what?

High Saturation

The feature that controls the size of the lens opening when a picture is taken.

Aperture

Aperture is measured in what?

F-Stop

What does F-Stop technically refer to?

The numbers that represent the size of your lens.

What is shutter speed?

How fast the shutter opens and closes.

When this photo was taken the shutter speed was most likely, what?

A fast shutter speed, like 1/600

When this photo was taken the shutter speed was most likely, what?

A slow shutter speed, like 1 second.

This mode on your camera lets you set the aperture and the camera determines the shutter speed.

Aperture Priority Mode

camera determines the aperture.

Shutter Priority Mode

This photo can be classified as what?

Shallow Depth of field

This photo most likely had what aperture?

Low aperture, like F2.8

This photo is an example of which type of Depth of Field

Shallow

The button on top of the camera that actually takes the picture.

shutter release

What does A or AV stand for on the camera's setting dial?

Aperture Priority

The distance from the center of the lens to the focal point.

focal length

Embedded information in each photo a camera takes that identifies shot details and camera make.

Metadata

should I use for a Shallow Depth of Field?

f/1.4 ….

What is Bokeh?

Aesthetic quality of the blurry parts of a photo

Which f/stop gives the largest aperture opening

f/1.4

What is this "graph" on a camera?

histogram

If a histogram peaks, like at the right, problems can occur with the shot. This is called:

Clipping

what type of shutter speed would you need?

Long

What is this gadget on the top of the camera?

hot shoe

How is the exposure in this image?

Over exposed

f/2.8 refers to a setting in what camera mechanism?

Aperture

What is the visual by product of high ISO settings

Noise/Grain

The most common loss-less image file format:

TIFF

If I modify my shutter speed from 1/60 sec to 1/500 sec what is happening to my light?

Losing Light

If I modify my aperture from f/1.4 to f/22, but change nothing else, my image will get?

Darker

being changed to make the rear lens blurry?

Aperture

What setting is being "priority" changed to create the series of images?

Shutter Speed….

Someone took this photo on Auto mode. Which mode would be more suitable for this picture?

Shutter Speed Priority

This can happen at slower shutter speeds if you are off balance or have unsteady hands.

camera shake

What camera mechanism controls the duration of light reaching the sensor?

shutter speed

What is affected by aperture adjustments?

Depth of Field

What is controlled by adjusting shutter speed?

Time / Motion

What happens if the light is low and the ISO is too high?

Grain / Noise

Digital camera sensors contain tons of these which builds an image one dot at a time

pixels

ISO controls what?

sensor sensitivity to light

What does "S" (Nikon) or "TV" (Canon) setting stand for?

Shutter Priority

What does the "P" stand for on the settings dial?

Program Mode

The most common lossy compressed file format, often used by phone cameras.

JPG

To achieve this photo what type of shutter speed is necessary?

Fast

What three settings make up the exposure triangle?

Shutter Speed, Aperture, ISO

Which shutter speed setting allows the most light in?

1/1sec

What Aperture setting lets in the least amount of light?

f/8

Which ISO setting produces the brightest image?

1200

Closeup shots where lens can focus so close that a small object is larger than life.

Macro

What depth of Field does this photo showcase?

Shallow

If you take a photo and it has unwanted motion blur what setting do you change to fix the issue

Shutter Speed

Digital film" or what holds onto the digital camera shots.

Memory Card